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Akron native Darius Carter Jr. and the Wichita State University men’s basketball team saw their season come to an end Sunday following a 78-76 loss to Kentucky in the third round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament.

Wichita State ended its season with a 35-1 record. The Shockers set an NCAA record for consecutive wins to start a season with 35 victories.

St. Vincent-St. Mary boys basketball coach Dru Joyce II on his starting five as the team gets ready for a Division II state semifinal matchup with Columbus Bishop Watterson at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Ohio State University’s Value City Arena:

Former area high school players DJ Bettinger and Bob Peters helped guide the Indiana Wesleyan University men’s basketball team to a 78-68 victory over Midland (Neb.) 78-68 in the 2014 Division II NAIA national championship game Tuesday night.

Bettinger, a 2011 Revere High School graduate, started and did not score in the championship game at Keeter Gymnasium in Point Lookout, Missouri. Peters, a 2013 Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academt graduate, played as a reserve and scored five points.

Five Northeast Ohio natives won a title in NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship between the Divisions I, II and III meets this past Saturday.

The champions were Shawn Barber of the University of Akron, Louisiana State's Quincy Downing of Cleveland Glenville High School, Lake Erie College's Jamil Dudley of Massillon Washington High School, Ashland's Jessica Bridenthal of Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary High School and Mount Union's Sean Donnelly of Willoughby South High School.

The Greater Akron Basketball Coaches Association is holding its 27th annual GABCA Boys All-Star Game Wednesday at Wadsworth High School.

The free throw, slam dunk, and 3-point shooting contest finals will begin at 6 p.m. and the all-star game will start at 7 p.m. All tickets are sold at the door and are $2 for students and $3 for adults.

The Buckeye boys basketball team (21-3) will continue its season to remember at 7 p.m. Wednesday night against Vermilion (17-7) in a Division II district semifinal at Westlake High School.

Coach Matt Saunders led the Bucks to their first sectional title since 1993 and third in the past 61 seasons on March 1 with an 82-52 victory at home over Oberlin Firelands in a sectional final. Buckeye defeated Brooklyn 60-36 on Feb. 26 in a sectional semifinal.

St. Vincent-St. Mary senior Aaron Adkins signed Tuesday to wrestle at Ohio State University.

Adkins, a Norton, resident, won his second consecutive Division II state wrestling title at 182-pounds this past weekend in Columbus. He also was a starting defensive lineman on the St. V-M football team that won the past two Division III state titles.

Wrestling on mats right next to each other, Linton and Adkins each emerged victorious in the closing seconds of their 182-pound state championship matches in Division III and Division II, respectively, at Value City Arena in the Schottenstein Center.